The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - V. Woolf
I feel like I've quoted this to you before in a post I can't find. Either I did and the situation with B. continues to make me think of this feeling, which I am learning in my own life in a different way, or the lost entry is a dream space where everything was said and/or became clear.
I often feel that joy and anguish have extremely similar edges. The odd thing is to feel both the pain of loss and the pleasant certainty of wellbeing, that the one doesn't go away in the presence of the other. We are often cut twice.
Re:cats and showers Mine won't jump in but he will harass me in the bath because it is his territory (his litter is in the bathroom). We sometimes stage battles through the shower curtain with giant sponges and kitty body surfing on the curtain.
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Date: 2004-09-05 02:35 pm (UTC)I feel like I've quoted this to you before in a post I can't find. Either I did and the situation with B. continues to make me think of this feeling, which I am learning in my own life in a different way, or the lost entry is a dream space where everything was said and/or became clear.
I often feel that joy and anguish have extremely similar edges. The odd thing is to feel both the pain of loss and the pleasant certainty of wellbeing, that the one doesn't go away in the presence of the other. We are often cut twice.
Re:cats and showers
Mine won't jump in but he will harass me in the bath because it is his territory (his litter is in the bathroom). We sometimes stage battles through the shower curtain with giant sponges and kitty body surfing on the curtain.